71.   Egyptian human rights group have already called for new elections, citing widespread vote rigging.

72.   Elections chief Dayananda Dissanayake confirmed that there were reports of vote rigging but said he ordered ballots at such polling booths to be excluded from the count.

73.   Two campaign workers were shot dead and opposition charges of vote rigging flew on Wednesday as Egyptians went to the polls in the second round of stormy parliamentary elections.

74.   Two other parties also expressed fears of vote rigging.

75.   It then charged the BNP with vote rigging and began its campaign for elections to be held under a neutral caretaker government.

76.   Kuchma aides also accused Kravchuk of vote rigging after the electoral commission took three days to announce results following the first round.

77.   Newspapers commentators have said Zia, who maintains the June election results were overturned against her party, planned to start a campaign accusing the government of vote rigging.

78.   Most of those arrested had been picked by candidates to serve as observers in polling stations to prevent vote rigging.

79.   Opposition parties and rights groups claimed a repeat of the widespread vote rigging which they blamed for their first round whitewash.

80.   Opposition parties, who failed to gain any seats in the first round, complained of widespread vote rigging.